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Ray Lewis Isn’t the Only One Bringing Religion to Super Bowl Sunday

By Joanna Brooks

…redette, but nothing that comes close to true-believing Cougar fandom. I must admit I am a stone-cold nonbeliever. But what about the kids? people ask. Are you worried they’ll be confused with an atheist mother and an ultraorthodox father? Nah. They know more about the NBA than any seven- and nine-year-old girls in history. They talk about Metta World Peace as if he were a family friend. With their capacious knowledge of early 21st-century sport…

Evangelical Sexperiment

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…driven by these larger cultural trends. And increasingly, evangelical Christianity is struggling to seem relevant. Indeed, Reverend Young’s pithy pronouncements intended to sell the program are heavy on the language of self-help. Having sex when you don’t feel like it is a lot like forcing yourself to smile when you’re unhappy: you just feel better. And when a couple’s sex life hits the skids because the husband has admitted to an extramarital af…

No Shocker for This Gay Ex-Jesuit, Vatican Rejects Gay Priests (Again)

By Benjamin Brenkert

…tnut Hill), St. Francis Xavier (New York City), DeSmet Jesuit High School (St. Louis), Georgetown (Washington, D.C.) or the Rock Church (Kansas City)? To those closeted gay priests and seminarians who consecrate the Eucharist and who pray for peace and mercy, the time has come to, as Jesus did, to flip the tables in places of worship, to come out. Be the voices crying out in the wilderness, pray for the courage to virtuously identify yourself as g…

Tebow’s Tears: Is God Really a Gator Fan?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…e. Last week was “rivalry week” and that meant that Florida played Florida State, still coached by a game octogenarian, Bobby Bowden. That game was a drubbing, not a grudge match, with the 37-10 final score scarcely indicative of how one-sided a performance it was. Tebow selected Hebrews 12:1-2 for last week’s game. Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, sin which clings so closely, and…

Obama Foes Misrepresent Islam with “Apostate” Tactic

By Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na`im

…“President Apostate” in the New York Times (May 12, 2008) by the military strategist and historian Edward Luttwak (and, exactly a week later, in a May 19 Christian Science Monitor Op-Ed entitled “Barack Obama–Muslim Apostate?”). Now, as if to flip the Muslim coin, Mr. Luttwak, Ms. Burki, and others speculate that Muslims will hold Mr. Obama to a higher religious standard because he does not embrace the religion of his father. Mr. Luttwak argues t…

More Bleak Times For Indonesian LGBTs; South Africa Bans Extremist Anti-Gay US Pastor; Mexican Marriage Struggle Heats Up; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…church,” he said. Catholic Voice describes itself as Europe’s latest and fastest growing Catholic newspaper. Its stated mission is to “serve the Church in complete fidelity to the Holy See through our writing and publishing”. Philippines: Boxer apologizes for comparing gays to animals, maintains ‘biblical beliefs’ on sexuality Manny Pacqquiao, the Filipino boxer who has drawn international criticism for anti-gay comments, “admits he was wrong to c…

Is Sport Worth Dying For? Lessons From the Vancouver Olympics

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…dangerous things are supposed to happen at the Summer Games. In the United States, most spectators may not deem the luge worth such fatal risk-taking, but that does not go for all sports. Indeed, we do tolerate the possibility of violent collisions, career-ending injuries (and even life-ending ones) in American-style football, or boxing. One of my worries about the questions swirling around this accident—especially the question of “whether it was…

Queer [Theory]-Bashing by Georgia Republicans; The New Know-Nothingism Creeps

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…tors began calling for an investigation of colleges throughout the Georgia state system (27 four-year campuses in all), in order to weed out courses that should not be taught, and quite possibly, to downsize further by removing such instructors from the faculty rolls. Two areas were targeted initially when the story broke on February 10th; both involved—what else?—sex. One professor at the Georgia State University was listed as an expert on oral s…

Pox Americana: Franzen’s Tragic Vision

By Peter Laarman

…sterners with troubled souls; although this time we begin in St. Paul, not St. Louis. It happens that Patty is not a native Minnesotan (she’s from Westchester County), but she fits right in there with her lanky beauty as a former hoops star and her extreme neighborliness. Patty has become somewhat lost in her life and marriage, however, in part because of an unresolved obsession with Walter’s old Macalester College roommate, a handsome nihilist na…

When Religion Goes Missing in the Modern Museum

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…osity of the pieces that have been lost to view. II. Iconoclasm, Greek-Christian Style In the month that has passed since the dramatic and long-awaited opening of the New Acropolis Museum in Athens, many things have changed. And most of these changes have been rather different than the ones intended or envisioned by the architects’ and the politicians’ original designs. To be sure, the Museum has initiated a whole new debate about the politics of…